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Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:29:10 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Ivanka Trump to Meet With Al Gore to Discuss Climate Changehttp://freebeacon.com/politics/ivanka-trump-meet-al-gore/
http://freebeacon.com/politics/ivanka-trump-meet-al-gore/#respondMon, 05 Dec 2016 17:52:42 +0000http://freebeacon.com/?p=695875Ivanka Trump is set to meet with former Vice President Al Gore on Monday to discuss climate change, an issue over which Trump reportedly has great interest despite her father calling it a hoax.

]]>Ivanka Trump is set to meet with former Vice President Al Gore on Monday to discuss climate change, an issue over which Trump reportedly has great interest despite her father calling it a hoax.

Jason Miller, an adviser to Donald Trump, said Monday on a conference call that the meeting would take place without the president-elect present, Politicoreported.

Ivanka Trump appears to have a difference stance on climate change than her father, who has said that it is a hoax made up by the Chinese to decrease the competition of the U.S. manufacturing industry.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

Gore had previously endorsed and campaigned for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. Once Trump became the president-elect, however, Gore did say he would try to work with him to help on climate change.

Gore has spent most of his career advocating for climate change, creating a documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which advocates for the cause.

]]>http://freebeacon.com/politics/ivanka-trump-meet-al-gore/feed/0Al Gore Comes Out Against Electoral Collegehttp://freebeacon.com/politics/al-gore-comes-out-against-electoral-college/
http://freebeacon.com/politics/al-gore-comes-out-against-electoral-college/#respondWed, 30 Nov 2016 19:07:34 +0000http://freebeacon.com/?p=694150Former Vice President Al Gore said on Tuesday the U.S. should kill the Electoral College and instead decide presidential elections by popular vote.

]]>Former Vice President Al Gore said on Tuesday the U.S. should kill the Electoral College and instead decide presidential elections by popular vote.

Gore said while he has advocated for the institution since losing the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000 despite winning the popular vote, his views have now shifted.

“After the Supreme Court decision in 2000, I continued to support the Electoral College because the original purpose was to tie the states together,” Gore said at an event in Washington, D.C., according to NBC News. “I have changed my view on that. I do think that it should be eliminated.”

Gore said abolishing the Electoral College would “stimulate public participation in the democratic process like nothing else we could possibly do.”

His comments come as efforts to abolish the institution have reignited following the election of Donald Trump, who failed to win the popular vote on Nov. 8. Hillary Clinton received two million more votes than Trump, according to the Cook Political Report, but lost the election by 74 electoral votes.

Anti-Trump forces, primarily made up of Democrats, have launched a lobbying effort targeted at persuading 37 Republican electors to cast their vote on Dec. 19 for a candidate other than Trump, according to Politico. The group plans to challenge laws in the 29 states that require electors to back their party’s candidate.

“I think moving to a popular vote system is not without peril, is not without problems, it’s not a simple one choice is all good, the other is all bad. It’s a balancing act. But I think the balance has shifted, in my mind at least, and I think that we should go to a popular vote,” Gore said.

At the end of their joint appearance, Gore asked Clinton, “Want to do a hands-up?”, referencing the familiar sight of political partners joining hands and raising them aloft to show unity.

“Yeah!” Clinton replied, and they clasped hands.

As they were both partners of Bill Clinton when he was president, Gore his Vice President and Hillary his wife, the two were rivals regarding policy and had a reportedly tense relationship. After the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Gore distanced himself from the Clintons during his failed 2000 White House run, and he didn’t endorse Hillary Clinton when she first ran for president in 2008.

He also skipped this year’s Democratic National Convention and has been almost completely invisible during this election cycle.

In addition to praising Clinton as the candidate who would fight climate change during the rally, Gore re-litigated the controversial 2000 election in Florida, where he narrowly lost the state and the presidency to George W. Bush after an extensive recount.

]]>http://freebeacon.com/politics/hot-mic-catches-awkward-clinton-gore-moment-rally/feed/0Al Gore Still Whining About Losing 2000 Electionhttp://freebeacon.com/politics/al-gore-still-cries-losing-2000-election/
http://freebeacon.com/politics/al-gore-still-cries-losing-2000-election/#respondTue, 11 Oct 2016 20:37:44 +0000http://freebeacon.com/?p=673735The post Al Gore Still Whining About Losing 2000 Election appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
]]>Climate change warrior Al Gore joined Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail Tuesday at a stop at Miami Dade College in Florida, and he could not resist bringing up his 2000 election defeat to George W. Bush.

“Your vote really, really, really counts a lot,” Gore said. “You can consider me an as an exhibit A of that group.”

Clinton has been leading an effort to reach out to millennials and get them to vote. She brought Gore to explain why it is damaging to the country to vote for a third party candidate.

Gore claims that he lost the 2000 election to Bush because of third-party candidate Ralph Nader. A recount of the Florida results went on for weeks in 2000 before Bush was ultimately declared the winner of the state and the presidency.

The millennials standing behind the failed presidential candidate looked less than enthused about Gore discussing a time many of them were too young to remember.

“For those of you who are younger than 25, you might not remember the election of 2000 or what happened here in Florida and across the country,” Gore said. “For those of you older than 25, I heard you murmuring just now, but take it from me it was a very close election.”

Gore was interrupted by cheers of “You won!” before continuing on about his loss and that elections have consequences.

]]>http://freebeacon.com/politics/al-gore-still-cries-losing-2000-election/feed/0Gore Seeks Happy Ending In Strained Clinton Relationshiphttp://freebeacon.com/politics/gore-seeks-happy-ending-strained-clinton-relationship/
http://freebeacon.com/politics/gore-seeks-happy-ending-strained-clinton-relationship/#respondWed, 05 Oct 2016 18:30:14 +0000http://freebeacon.com/?p=670756Former U.S. vice president Al Gore is set to hit the campaign trail in support of former president Bill Clinton’s wife this week.

]]>Former U.S. vice president Al Gore is set to hit the campaign trail in support of former president Bill Clinton’s wife this week.

Gore jumps into the race at a crucial crossroads for the Clinton campaign, which is focused on Donald Trump’s years-old provocative comments about former actress and talk show host Rosie O’Donnell, as well as the billionaire’s past comments regarding an ex-Miss Universe winner who packed on upwards of 50 pounds during the course of her reign.

The Clinton campaign is currently running a much-buzzed-about ad in several swing states transposing Trump’s comments about O’Donnell onto young women looking into a mirror, and the candidate herself recently accused Trump of body-shaming from the stump.

Hillary Clinton is no stranger to men behaving badly. As a young defense lawyer in the 1970s, Mrs. Clinton volunteered to defend the male rapist of a 12-year-old girl, laughing about how she “got him off” during an interview years later.

Clinton’s husband Bill has participated in a well-publicized string of extra-marital affairs and dealt with a number of sexual assault accusations, including several instances where Mrs. Clinton personally strategized to discredit her husband’s accusers.

Gore and Mrs. Clinton have had their share of differences and shared a well-documented icy relationship during the 42nd president’s term. The former president was also famously absent during Mr. Gore’s 2000 campaign for president.

The entrance of Mr. Gore into the 2016 race marks his first foray into this cycle’s presidential campaign and comes at a time where sexual assault, body-shaming, and bullying have surfaced as core issues of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign platform.

Allegations of sexual assault surfaced against Mr. Gore in 2010 from a string of women involved in the massage therapy industry. The most prominent allegation came from a Portland, Ore., massage therapist and was alleged to have occurred in 2006. The alleged victim was interviewed by police at the time, as the Associated Press reported:

In a transcript of the interview, the massage therapist said she had been doing requested abdominal work on Mr. Gore when he demanded she go lower.

“I was shocked and I did not massage beyond what is considered a safe, nonsexual area of the abdomen,” she said. “He further insisted and acted angry, becoming verbally sharp and loud.”

“I went into much deeper shock as I realized it appeared he was demanding sexual favors or sexual behaviors.”

She alleged he later tried to have sex with her.

“I did not immediately call the police as I feared being made into a public spectacle and my reputation being destroyed,” she said. “I was not sure what to tell them and was concerned my story would not be believed since there was no DNA evidence from a completed act of rape.”

Mr. Gore never faced formal charges, as the police determined there was not enough evidence to convict. On June 1, 2010, Mr. Gore subsequently announced the separation from Tipper, his wife of forty years.

Earlier this year, the FBI decided not to charge Mrs. Clinton in the ongoing saga over her destruction and obfuscation of her email records while she served as the U.S. secretary of state from 2009-2013.

Mr. Gore’s entry into the 2016 race could prove awkward for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign messaging. Late last year, Clinton expressed her belief that sexual assault accusers have the right to be believed:

“Today I want to send a message to every survivor of sexual assault,” Clinton said. “Don’t let anyone silence your voice. You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed and we’re with you.”

“There is a big divide between survivors who do not want to seek the criminal justice system for different reasons and those who want to but are not sure that it would be responsive,” Clinton said today. “So we need to do a much better job on the fairness of the response so that people feel like whichever route they go on campus or off they’re going to be taken seriously, that doesn’t mean that, you know, that there’s no process. There has to be one.”

MSNBC reporter Hallie Jackson did not push back on Schultz’s claim. In fact, she agreed. Bush won the state by an official tally of 537 votes after a prolonged recount period that eventually went to the Supreme Court.

A new CNN poll this week showed Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton among likely voters in Florida, after polling consistently showed Clinton ahead in the critical swing state.

Discussing Clinton’s recent struggles, Schultz, the former Democratic National Committee chair, said that Clinton was actually ahead in Florida and it would go blue as it had for Barack Obama twice. Schultz grew irritated when Jackson reminded her it went red in 2000 and 2004 for George W. Bush.

“In the average of polls, Hillary Clinton is ahead here in Florida,” Schultz said. “The reason that Florida will be blue, just like it was in 2012 and in 2008, and in every election since—”

“Not in 2000 or 2004,” Jackson said.

“In 2000, it absolutely was blue,” Schultz said.

“Of course,” Jackson said. “2004, 2004.”

“The Supreme Court elected the president,” Schultz said. “Al Gore won the state of Florida in 2000, although not the presidency.”

Schultz and Jackson are mistaken. Bush won Florida in 2000 and the presidency, going on to serve two terms. Had Gore won the state, he would have been president instead.

]]>http://freebeacon.com/politics/debbie-wasserman-schultz-gore-florida-2000/feed/0Al Jazeera America To Be Phased Out by Aprilhttp://freebeacon.com/politics/al-jazeera-america-end-april/
http://freebeacon.com/politics/al-jazeera-america-end-april/#respondWed, 13 Jan 2016 20:03:15 +0000http://freebeacon.com/?p=544420The Al Jazeera America board has made the decision to phase out its struggling TV channel by April 30. According to Neilson Ratings, the network was only available in about 60 million American homes. CEO Al Anstey wrote in an email that the “decision by Al Jazeera America’s board is driven by the fact that our ...

]]>The Al Jazeera America board has made the decision to phase out its struggling TV channel by April 30. According to Neilson Ratings, the network was only available in about 60 million American homes.

CEO Al Anstey wrote in an email that the “decision by Al Jazeera America’s board is driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace.”

Anstey said that the network will pursue a new global online strategy with content delivered from the United States later this year.

“In recent months at every level, and in every department, we have been making progress and demonstrated improvements and seen positive change,” Anstey wrote. “ Our Editorial excellence was demonstrated time and time again on the major stories of recent months. And we continue to win praise from our colleagues in the industry, and from our viewers for the quality of our output.”

The channel launched in early 2o13 and hit the airwaves in August 2013 after the purchase of Al Gore’s Current TV. The channel, which was funded mostly by the government of Qatar, has been accused of promoting the Muslim Brotherhood.

In December 2015, the network released an investigative report that accused Peyton Manning and 10 other professional athletes took part in an underground doping ring. Ryan Zimmerman and Ryan Howard, who were named in the report, filed a defamation lawsuit on January 2016, against AJAM. The main source for the story has since recanted his claims that Manning had taken Human Growth Hormone.

Employees were told that broadcast operations would begin to wind down and separation packages were being structured to give employees another 90 days of payroll and benefits.

]]>http://freebeacon.com/politics/al-jazeera-america-end-april/feed/0Hugh Hewitt: Markay’s NDA Report ‘Problematic’ for Hillary Clintonhttp://freebeacon.com/politics/hugh-hewitt-markays-nda-report-problematic-for-hillary-clinton/
http://freebeacon.com/politics/hugh-hewitt-markays-nda-report-problematic-for-hillary-clinton/#respondMon, 09 Nov 2015 13:35:34 +0000http://freebeacon.com/?p=513559The post Hugh Hewitt: Markay’s NDA Report ‘Problematic’ for Hillary Clinton appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
]]>Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt said Monday on Morning Joe that a piece by the Washington Free Beacon‘s Lachlan Markay on a non-disclosure agreement signed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could be problematic for the Clinton campaign.

Hewitt said that “contemporaneous untruths” hurt presidential candidates more than lies told far in the past, and listed Vice President Al Gore as an example.

“Al Gore had a problem in 2000 because all of his untruths were very close to the period of time in which he was running for president,” he said.

He pointed out that Clinton faces a similar situation and referred to Markay’s report, which revealed that Clinton signed a document acknowledging responsibility for handling classified information as well as the consequences of mishandling it.

“Last week in the Washington Free Beacon, Lachlan Markay had a piece on former Secretary of State Clinton’s NDA, her nondisclosure agreement,” he said. “There appear to be lies in Mrs. Clinton’s immediate past. Those will be problematic.”

Hewitt said later in the interview that Markay’s piece was “enormously huge,” and accused MSNBC host Joe Scarborough as well as the broader media of not giving enough attention to stories like Markay’s.

“We do not want to encourage the media to destroy Republicans and protect Democrats,” he said regarding stories about Dr. Ben Carson’s past. “We do not want to engage in the knifing of our candidates and ignore over here an NDA that Lachlan finds.”

Scarborough pushed back angrily, at one point demanding an on-air apology from Hewitt for implying he gave Clinton a free pass on his show. Hewitt replied no apology would be forthcoming.

“The problem is that the mainstream media will not cover Hillary’s problems,” Hewitt said.

]]>http://freebeacon.com/politics/hugh-hewitt-markays-nda-report-problematic-for-hillary-clinton/feed/0CNN: Iowa Democrats Aren’t Sure About Hillaryhttp://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-iowa-democrats-arent-sure-about-hillary/
http://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-iowa-democrats-arent-sure-about-hillary/#respondFri, 14 Aug 2015 21:56:42 +0000http://freebeacon.com/?p=467137The post CNN: Iowa Democrats Aren’t Sure About Hillary appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
]]>With Hillary Clinton struggling under her private email server scandal and now lagging in the polls, CNN at the Iowa State Fair Friday found many Democrats unsure whether they will support the frontrunner.

“I’m not sure. I don’t know,” Becky Danilson said. “As much as I’d like to see a woman in there, definitely … I don’t know about her being the one.”

With Clinton vulnerable, other Democrats like Vice President Joe Biden and former Vice President Al Gore are reportedly considering runs to challenge her for the nomination. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) has gained on Clinton in Iowa and now leads her in New Hampshire.

“Some people say ‘I hope Joe Biden jumps in.’ It’ll give a good choice. It’ll give more depth,” John Neiderbach, a member of the Iowa Democratic Party said. “I’m truly undecided.”

]]>http://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-iowa-democrats-arent-sure-about-hillary/feed/0REPORT: Al Gore Shoots Down Lewinsky Box Invitehttp://freebeacon.com/blog/al-gore-lewinsky-clinton/
Mon, 06 Jul 2015 20:24:06 +0000http://freebeacon.com/?post_type=blog&p=441391New York Times columnist and marijuana aficionado Maureen Dowd reveals how Monica Lewinsky continues to be punished for her role in L'affaire Clinton:

PARIS — THE turquoise tranquillity of the Côte d’Azur was rocked a couple of times during the Cannes Lions Festival, the advertising world’s rosé-soaked answer to the Cannes Film Festival.

Al Gore snubbed Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky, who was giving a speech for Ogilvy & Mather about how she became “patient zero” in the cyberbullying epidemic, was slated to sit in a V.I.P. box with the former vice president, who got an award for being a good brand.

]]>New York Times columnist and marijuana aficionado Maureen Dowd reveals how Monica Lewinsky continues to be victim-shamed for her role in L’affaire Clinton:

PARIS — THE turquoise tranquillity of the Côte d’Azur was rocked a couple of times during the Cannes Lions Festival, the advertising world’s rosé-soaked answer to the Cannes Film Festival.

Al Gore snubbed Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky, who was giving a speech for Ogilvy & Mather about how she became “patient zero” in the cyberbullying epidemic, was slated to sit in a V.I.P. box with the former vice president, who got an award for being a good brand.

But her invite got yanked.

The snubbing, Dowd writes, was “a reminder that Gore’s prissy attitude” toward the Lewinsky scandal, and his reluctance to feature Bill Clinton on the campaign trail in 2000, might have cost him the election.

Dowd also takes issue with the notion that Lewinsky was the first victim of “cyberbullying,” as such.

Monica’s main bullies were not of the cyber variety. The Internet was just getting up and running. Her chief bullies were flesh and blood, a raffish president and feminist first lady who are now vying to be a feminist president and raffish first lad. They’re the ones who tried to paint her as a “narcissistic looney toon,” as Hillary put it to her friend Diane Blair.

Sidney Blumenthal, Hillary’s Doberman and email correspondent, led the sliming of Monica as a fantasist and stalker. Hillary’s friends do not regard Monica as a victim, but a predator. They think she let herself in for trouble when she took up with a married president who was a magnet for right-wing bullies.

Blair’s “looney toon” comments were first reported by the Free Beacon.

Bill Clinton was a featured speaker at the Cannes Liones Festival. It is not known whether the former president had any interaction with Lewinsky during the event. He did, however, manage to squeeze in a taxpayer-financed shopping spree at French luxury retailer Hermès, an outlet that is currently under fire from animal rights groups for torturing adorable creatures in the name of fashion.